16 September 2016
Legal Services Provider of the Year, 2016: King & Spalding LLP
King & Spalding’s energy clients turn to them for a broad range of business and legal advice to help them make major innovations and reach significant milestones. The firm has devised strategies for clients constructing major LNG export and petrochemical projects that have achieved the optimum price and contract structure to allow the projects - which otherwise might have stalled or been abandoned, given the current low-price oil and gas environment. This has included advising clients on the project structure, procurement and bidding process in order to produce maximum leverage to owners in their negotiations with contractors. As a result, clients have achieved significantly lower pricin
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